Super happy end to the conference as my and @zannaclay.bsky.social 's student Georgia Tuohy wins best talk! And @amandinevisine.bsky.social who works with @sheinalew.bsky.social wins best poster (pic to follow). @durhamdevsci.bsky.social on a roll! 😆 @durhampsych.bsky.social #ehbea #ehbea2025

The journey continues....with new research from our group ongoing - and with new developments for Triple-A, such as a focus on PE specifically, and with a whole-school in-person version of the training! Watch this space……

Once again, thank you to all the wonderful children, young people, parents and teachers who took part in the underpinning research, and to our amazing team of autistic people, parents, teachers and academics who co-designed the training tool. @21andsensory.bsky.social

It’s been such an interesting and worthwhile journey so far - with over 8000 users and considerable evidence of positive impact on understanding and practice. Here we share our new pre-print on the development of Triple-A, including analysis of its use and impact so far: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

It has been just over 3 years since we (@debbieriby.bsky.social & I) launched Triple-A (www.tripledurham.co.uk) - a training tool for educators for supporting autistic and neurodivergent pupils with attention, sensory arousal and anxiety.

Pleased to contribute to this

Miranda Prynne@mirandaprynne.bsky.social · last yr.

We asked academics and university staff around the world to share personal strategies for maintaining #wellbeing and balance in a sector in which #stress and #overwork are commonplace. Hear what they had to say in our latest podcast: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/podca... #academicsky #edusky

New paper! V excited to have published my first #cognitive #DevelopmentalPsychology project. 😁 We demonstrated body weight after effects in 7-10yos, 11-12yos, 14-15yos, and adults. Data suggest that just like with faces, visual representations of bodies mature relatively young.

Body size aftereffects are adult-like from 7 years onward

There is considerable evidence that adults’ perception of body weight in others can be manipulated via visual exposure to multiple bodies at one or an…

sciencedirect.com

The 7-10yo data were collected at @durhamdevsci.bsky.social 's Junior Scientist community event. You'd think a big noisy hall, competing with cool VR studies, would be tough for good data collection but I've never seen an effect quite this clean! #PsychSciSky

Presence on Presence: I watched Soderbergh's new film and wrote a bit for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

Are you being watched? Soderbergh’s ghost voyeur movie taps strange truths

Presence, the story of a family haunting where the camera’s eye is the spectre’s point of view, draws on what are for many people all too palpable phenomena

theguardian.com

Great to see work from our team lead by the fantastic @fassiluisa.bsky.social being written up for a general audience by The Mental Elf! Worth a read if you are interested in the evidence base on social media and clinical anxiety/depression in young people ⬇️

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 2y ago

Critical lack of evidence about social media use and youth mental health in clinical populations www.nationalelfservice.net?p=209615 #SocialMedia #YouthMentalHealth #Research

So, I got another piece of good news yesterday too... 😊

EHBEA@ehbea.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're over the moon to announce this year's EHBEA Services to the Community Award goes to @drboothroyd.bsky.social!!! Many thanks also go to her nominators @sheinalew.bsky.social and @brucerawlings.bsky.social

New article from Debbie Riby, @dramypearson.bsky.social and Jess Hirst from @durhampsych.bsky.social & @durhamdevsci.bsky.social on how #universitiescan support #neurodivergentresearchers Read it here: bit.ly/3CdlDcj #academia #highered #neurodiversity

How to support neurodivergent postgraduate researchers

How can universities ensure PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? Here’s how to provide neurodiversity-affirmative supervision

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Exciting times! After years of doing research with children and publishing it in topic-specialist outlets, I have finally got my first paper led by me unto a developmental journal! Big thanks to @durhamdevsci.bsky.social !

Some big smiles despite the cold as current and previous lab members and Psycholgy Spanish conversation clubbers graduate with their PhDs/MRes. @durhampsych.bsky.social @durhamdevsci.bsky.social @ninedtp.bsky.social

A lovely roundup of all the wonderful things going on in the @durhamdevsci.bsky.social group at Durham :) Here's to an awesome 2025! 🥳

Developmental Science - Durham Psychology@durhamdevsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's the most incredible time of the year: our inaugural roundup of Durham Dev Sci exciting stuff from 2024. No.1 is @mimhanley.bsky.social winning her BPS Impact & Engagement Award! Mary won for her work on autism & Williams Syndrome, inc. Triple A which supports neurodiversity in schools 1/n

It's the most incredible time of the year: our inaugural roundup of Durham Dev Sci exciting stuff from 2024. No.1 is @mimhanley.bsky.social winning her BPS Impact & Engagement Award! Mary won for her work on autism & Williams Syndrome, inc. Triple A which supports neurodiversity in schools 1/n

What amazing colleagues I have in @durhampsych.bsky.social and in the @durhamdevsci.bsky.social group in particular. It's been one hell of a year. #DevelopmentalPsychology #Interdisciplinarity #ParticipatoryAction #ActuallyAutistic research

Developmental Science - Durham Psychology@durhamdevsci.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's the most incredible time of the year: our inaugural roundup of Durham Dev Sci exciting stuff from 2024. No.1 is @mimhanley.bsky.social winning her BPS Impact & Engagement Award! Mary won for her work on autism & Williams Syndrome, inc. Triple A which supports neurodiversity in schools 1/n

Check out our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts and save the date! ndhumanities.com/2024/12/17/c...

It's the most incredible time of the year: our inaugural roundup of Durham Dev Sci exciting stuff from 2024. No.1 is @mimhanley.bsky.social winning her BPS Impact & Engagement Award! Mary won for her work on autism & Williams Syndrome, inc. Triple A which supports neurodiversity in schools 1/n